What to do?

[SLA79]

Hi

Just posted a veeery long post in the 'your story' section but realised that my question might get lost, so here it is...

I have a quick question as well about my medicine. I started Pred 30mg a day, three weeks ago. This was prescribed to reduce by 5mg a week tapering to nothing. As soon as I started the Pred it immediately calmed down the diareah (not the cramps tho) meaning that i went to the bathroom every couple of days - sorry to be crude but this visit usually consisted of some solid motions then (once the cork had popped!) diareah followed. I was reasonably happy with this and so was my consultant. He then started me off on Pentasa (as I guess he thought we were getting results) but since getting down to 15/20mg a day of Pred i'm back to going 4-6 times a day straight after meals. Do you think I need to go back to a higher dosage of Pred and taper slower? I will ask my consultant this but I am not due to see him for another week. Any advice would be great!

 

[PeninsulaLil]

I had a similar experience with predisone. Tapered by 5mg for two weeks at a time and when got down to 10mg a day added asacol. But less than a couple weeks after I was back to where I'd started. Doc said maybe we tapered too fast. But he didn't put me back on predisone; instead on entocort. Which worked, less side effects and we tapered much more slowly. I've been off the entocort and just on asacol for over 2 months now and so far so good.

Lilly

 

[ameslouise]

If you read the many posts regarding Prednisone, you'll see that a lot of people have trouble once they get to 20 mg. At that point, you may need to taper by 2 or 2.5 mg. Check with your doc.

Good luck! - Amy